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Making Sense of Penal Change (Hardcover, New)
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Making Sense of Penal Change (Hardcover, New)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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This book reviews the burgeoning literature on contemporary
punishment and penal change, concentrating on the work of four
scholars- David Garland, John Pratt, Hans Boutellier and Loic
Wacquant. The book differs from classical reviews in that it places
the scholars themselves, rather than the problem to be addressed,
at the centre of the book. Daems argues that academics do not think
and write in a vacuum, they carry a past with them and are
influenced by new insights and theories, and constantly need to
reposition themselves within their own field and their political
environment. This book, then, is as much about the selected authors
as the stories they bring. It includes four large chapters devoted
to the work of each author, offering an expose of their work framed
within the context of their lives. It offers a discussion of their
central ideas and their distinctive approach towards questions of
penal change and an analysis of the relationship between their
roles as scholars in an academic environment and citizens in a
political community. The scholar-oriented approach allows the
author to deal with questions related to criminology's public
persuasiveness - a timely analysis in view of recent calls for
criminologists and other social scientists to enter public debate
more directly.
This book is an accessible and important contribution to the
debate on recent penal change, presented in a way that both experts
and non-experts will be able to follow. It will be of interest to
criminologists, sociologists, socio-legal scholars, and criminal
lawyers and students.
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